Garry Quotes

The Western rhetoric of appeasement creates a self-reinforcing loop of mental and moral corruption. Speaking the truth now would mean confessing to many months of lies ~ Garry Kasparov

But evil does not die, just as history does not end. Like a weed, evil can be cut back but never entirely uprooted. It waits for its chance to spread through the cracks in our vigilance. It can take root in the fertile soil of our complacency, or even the rocky rubble of the fallen Berlin Wall. ~ Garry Kasparov

When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method. ~ Garry Kasparov

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed. ~ Garry Winogrand

It's not healthy for a society if the people hate their own government. ~ Garry Wills

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it. ~ Garry Marshall

It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better. ~ Garry Kasparov

All women are inferior to men. ~ Garry Kasparov

I'm very loyal in relationships. Even when I go out with my mom I don't look at other moms. ~ Garry Shandling

I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them. ~ Garry Wills

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant. ~ Garry Trudeau

Chess is mental torture. ~ Garry Kasparov

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin. ~ Garry Kasparov

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov. ~ Lou Gerstner

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers. ~ Garry Trudeau

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin. ~ Garry Kasparov

Inefficiency is to be our safeguard against despotism. ~ Garry Wills

I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my first memories is of them listening to a game on the radio and screaming at the radio. My brother would cry when they lost, and when I was really little, I didn't know why he was crying. ~ Penny Marshall

Repression may begin as a means to an end, but it always ends up being an end unto itself ~ Garry Kasparov

Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is. ~ Garry Shandling

Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing. ~ Garry Kasparov

My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge. ~ Garry Kasparov

In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I learned to be distrustful of men's depictions of women. I remember seeing Garry Winogrand's book Women Are Beautiful in the school library and being shocked that it hadn't been defaced for its blatant objectification of women. But looking back, maybe I was too harsh. Whether one photographs men or women, it is always a form of objectification. Whatever you say about Winogrand, his depiction was honest. ~ Alec Soth

The Russian Dept of Tourism has declared Ukraine its most dangerous destination. Many Russian tourists have disappeared there. ~ Garry Kasparov

The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement. ~ Garry Kasparov

Professional happiness is the tonic of longevity. ~ Garry Fitchett

We cannot seem to help ourselves they said. Thus, the hominid spark of intelligence flares, burns everything around it, and fades. Some humans will survive the great conflagration. Thus, begins an endless cycle of destruction spiraling downward until our species is gone. We can hope that before the sun begins to become unstable (it is about half way there now) evolution can produce a new and better intelligence that will have sufficient breadth and depth to understand the ecological consequences of its actions. ~ Garry Rogers

In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't. ~ Vladimir Kramnik

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom. ~ Alan King

My opponent is Short and the match will be short. ~ Garry Kasparov

Constructing a strong and beautiful sentence is the highest form of architecture. Because whereupon seeing a beautiful building one may think, but to read a sentence one has to think. ~ Garry Fitchett

To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit. ~ Garry Wills

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else
and whichever is better you print. ~ Garry Winogrand

Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful. ~ Garry Kasparov

I've seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities. ~ Garry Kasparov

Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays. ~ Garry Hynes

Well the other thing about lying is that the liar is banking on two things when telling the lie. They are hoping that the person being lied to is gullible enough to believe, and it's also not even that they think they are gullible, it's that they know the person they are lying to well enough that they know the person won't push it any further because they know the person they are lying to wants to believe the lie. ~ Garry Crystal

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room? ~ Garry Trudeau

Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist. ~ Garry Shandling

Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox. ~ Ralph Kiner

Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds. ~ Garry Trudeau

I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later. ~ Garry Hynes

I directed fourteen movies. Every movie had Hector Elizondo. He didn't like Beaches. I don't know, it was originally not a happy movie at all, it was much sadder than that. And they brought me in to kind of make it a little more 'warm', I guess you might call it. The original ending was a whole messy thing. ~ Garry Marshall

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law. ~ Garry Kasparov

Being temporarily broke sharpens the mirror's reflection. ~ Garry Fitchett

The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island. ~ Garry Hynes

The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country. ~ Garry Hynes

Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it. ~ Garry Winogrand

Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms. ~ Garry Kasparov

Self-assurance reassures others. ~ Garry Willis

I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel. ~ Garry Disher

We should try to keep our mothers in the home and that's where the whole Reform platform hangs together. ~ Garry Breitkreuz

It is foolish to let down our defenses against an attack simply because we will be in the moral right should that attack come. ~ Garry Kasparov

When you consider that only an estimated 15 percent of the US population plays chess, its cultural prominence is extraordinary. It ~ Garry Kasparov

Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights. ~ Garry Kasparov

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent. ~ Garry Trudeau

Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles. ~ Garry Kasparov

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it. ~ Garry Marshall

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it. ~ Garry Wills

That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck? ~ Garry Shandling

Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history. ~ Garry Kasparov

I'm dating a homeless woman. It was easier talking her into staying over. ~ Garry Shandling

The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette. ~ Garry Kasparov

Upon entering, 'Your room,' be surrounded by the things you love: pictures, light, paintings, photos, books, whatever. ~ Garry Fitchett

Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if [Vladimir] Putin sees the need for a larger war to stoke his domestic support again as the Russian economy teeters. ~ Garry Kasparov

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport. ~ Garry Kasparov

I'd like to do more acting. ~ Garry Shandling

Russia was allowed to inherit the Soviet Union's seat on the UN Security Council when that organization, which had been designed to preserve the Cold War status quo, should instead have been reformed to reflect the new primacy of the free world. ~ Garry Kasparov

We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest. ~ Garry Kasparov

His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution of the first world champion to its development is comparable with the great scientific discoveries of the 19th century. ~ Garry Kasparov

Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day. ~ Garry Trudeau

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this. ~ Garry Marshall

[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop. ~ Lee Friedlander

Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players. ~ Garry Kasparov

My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice. ~ Garry Kasparov

A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. ~ Garry Kasparov

You can't overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that winning requires a constant and strong psychology not just at the board but in every aspect of your life. ~ Garry Kasparov

That's why my ires always come comedic in a way because - can I just say something? See, I sound like such a smooth talker. ~ Garry Marshall

The thing about lying is it's like creating your own world, controlling your own little world. A tiny innocent, or as some people call them white lie, can lead eventually to the break-up of a relationship. If the other person in the relationship knows the person has lied, no matter if it was with good intentions, then it's the beginning of the breakdown of trust. A profile or a picture is being continually formed of the two people in a relationship, and the lies, big and small, add to that profile. ~ Garry Crystal

Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other. ~ Garry Wills

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body. ~ Garry Moore

The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you've got to bounce off better work. It's matter of working. ~ Garry Winogrand

Your problem is that you're more like an empty book and you're waiting on someone else to write your pages for you. For someone who doesn't believe in fate, destiny and all that shit, you seem to spend an awful lot of time waiting for something to happen to you. ~ Garry Crystal

Mum calls you happy." Emily giggled.
"Huh? I don't know your Mom…" "She says men like you are happy!"
Garry stared at her, uncomprehending. He'd rarely felt less happy in his life.
"She means gay," Max said, and now there was a grin on his face. ~ Clare London

Do as little as necessary to appear to be doing something without actually committing to a cause or course of action. ~ Garry Kasparov

My partner after Fred Freeman was Jerry Belson. And Jerry Belson, after I was doing so well writing situation comedy, said, this is not good enough. We got to create our own shows. I said, but we're very happy doing this. No, no, no, you got to get your own show. So he made me - and he and I created our own shows. And we actually - everything we created failed. "Hey, Landlord" was our first show - 99th in the ratings. But imagine this - it's a great reflection on the years. ~ Garry Marshall

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves. ~ Garry Wills

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times. ~ Garry Trudeau

[The movie Beaches] was really about how women fight. Women fight, say terrible things to each other and an hour later they make up and go shopping. I think they got the better idea of how it should be done. ~ Garry Marshall

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work. ~ Garry Winogrand

It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria. ~ Garry Kasparov

I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen. ~ Garry Shandling

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power. ~ Garry Kasparov

Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position. ~ Garry Kasparov

There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else? ~ Garry Kasparov

Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook. ~ Garry Kasparov

I think I learned a lot on Beaches. A guy I worked with Dante Spinotti is a wonderful cinematographer and it was his first picture and he went on to be nominated for an Academy Award for "LA Confidential" which was great. ~ Garry Marshall

I keep my scrapbooks in the car. When I come to a stoplight, I start looking through my past. Sometimes I wish the red lights were longer. ~ Garry Shandling

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat. ~ Garry Winogrand

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess. ~ Garry Kasparov